Tucker and Jamie Maxfield & Fam

Sunday, October 01, 2017

October 2017

I Designed new TDC Elite Team Apparel!

Jordyn't Team sister Kennedy

Lexi's team sister Karrieman (Lexi was in TEARS about taking this photo...ugh this was SOOOOO hard)

Peyton's team sister Reece.

Dana, Roberta and Jen - LOVE THEM

Aww baby kitty!!

Roxy - our girl. She was getting so sick.

My cane stash! I bought a labeler to put kids names and the sizes on each cane.

Roxy and Rusy loving a walk. We are the worst dog owners/walkers. Do not do it enough!

Tucker came home from a work trip and we had the house decorated for his birthday. age 45.

The night before Roxy died. I Had a feeling. I wanted to capture how she always slept by me.

My mom always saved snippets of our baby hair, so I had to save different sections of Roxy's hair. It was so sad. She had been really struggling for a few weeks, and then suddenly, one sunday morning, she became paralyzed in her back legs. It made her panicked, and she was struggling to breathe. She died within a few hours in our arms. It was SOOOO HARD. But I wanted her to be at home with us, rather than a cold emergency vet office that scares her to death. She was the best dog in the world, and we only got 5 years with her :-(

Kylee drew us a picture of Roxy after she heard she died.

This has been a shocking relationship, Tucker always "hated" cats, but somehow really likes Kiki.

Molly and I went to support Jordyn at her Golf Tournament in Lemoore

One of my semi-annual dinners with Carol Stone. Sakura Chaya is our favorite!

Peyton's 11th birthday! We invited Eden and went to an escape room and Teppanyaki for dinner. It was our first escape room, and very fun!

Then we had Grandpa, Kristy have cake with us when we got home.

Jordyn eats lunch every Wednesday with the same group of girls. One of their houses is real close to the high school, and her mom started this tradition their freshman year. I love it and appreciate it so much.

Jo and Lex love the Christy Miller Series books

I also took Peyton and Bryn for birthday ice cream since their birthdays are one day apart.

We went to Utah in October, for an early Thanksgiving and Mallory's mission farewell!

Peyton and her "twin" Brock

Taylor, Jordyn, Lexi and Mindy (Lexi still on those darn steroids)

The Gertson girls, Maxfield girls, and Maddie

Peyton sure loved Gam's shoes and closet! She borrowed a pair of boots for church.

Made a stop at Ulta with Peyton and Gam/Jeannine!

Of course playing games!!

I gathered the girls in the bathroom and did a tutorial on how to PROPERLY clean a toilet! My mom and Grandma taught me well!

Friday, September 01, 2017

September 2017

Every year, on Labor Day Weekend, Berta and I fix up the studio. It's a LOT of work and ends up being like three long days...LONG. But also fun and we work well together on projects. We always say the end result is our "sunset" we like to sit and stare at, no matter how delirious!

One of my co-workers is Debbie and she is totally blind. She needed some orientation to new schools she was going to work at this school year, so I trained her on several schools.

Sweet Peyton before her haircut. Not sure where the after picture is!

Peyton wears a perfectly slicked back bun to school every Mon and Wednesday so she is all ready for ballet. It is quite the ordeal!

Jordyns first year teaching her own classes! She had a hip hop, ballet and jazz.

This scleroderma has made Lexi sooooo tired and she is always taking naps. Poor kid. At least she has Rusty to keep her company!

So, one night Jill invited us over. It was a nice evening so me and the girls walked over there. On the way home, I decided to have us walk home instead of having Tucker pick us up. Well, it was a life changing walk because we suddenly heard this loud noise that I thought was a strange bird. It was loud and persistent. As we got closer, I turned on my flashlight and saw this:

A KITTY! I didn't know what to do! I decided to leave the kitty there because it was really late and I didn't want the home owner to come out with a gun, and I told the girls we'd come back in the morning.

So...we did. And the kitty was still there and practically ran to us! The owner was in the backyard. so I was able to talk to him and ask if it was his kitty. He said cats always have babies under the foundation of his home and that we could have her if we wanted! We took her tiny self home. Lexi had been asking for a kitty for a whole year, ever since kitty ran away. SO, I figured this kitty dropped into our lap.